I don't know if I just went into this one with low expectations or what, but I really enjoyed it. Part of it's also surely that I've been hitting Gene Hackman's filmography hard for almost three weeks and it's a rare treat that we get him in lighter fare.
What we get here is basically something that could be stretched out into the first season of a sitcom, complete with fitting score and tone. George Dupler (Gene Hackman) has just…
I can't exactly say it has the best action you'll see this year, or that it isn't a lot of nonsense I was particularly invested in, but if you like the idea of Gene Hackman as a man with a particular set of skills, running around Paris and in search of his kidnapped wife, with the help (and hindrance) of son Matt Dillon and some old friends, then I think there's a good chance you'll have a solid time with this one. Just don't go in expecting anything near the level of Hackman's prior two collaborations with Arthur Penn, Night Moves and Bonnie and Clyde.
Only in a screwball comedy could a woman recently fired from her job, after a case of mistaken identity ending up with an unwanted adoption, and dating her boss, feel like a basic plot.
As much as it's not perfect I ended up loving Bachelor Mother, as it's right up my alley. I always adore Ginger Rogers, she's great again in the lead here. David Niven is well cast, as he's able to play both the irresponsible cad who's heir…
Over the course of this movie's 72 minute runtime, Nan Collins (Laraine Day) will find out that, as the alternate title suggests, she has just married a communist. As we soon find out, Brad Collins (Robert Ryan) had been a young go-getter just out of college during the Depression, when unable to find work he was seduced by the Communist Party, before finding out it wasn't for him and running off to San Francisco where he became a productive member…
